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'''''Manchester''''' is a city in the north of [[England]], nearby [[Liverpool]]. | '''''Manchester''''' is a city in the north of [[England]], nearby [[Liverpool]]. | ||
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| + | In one of the highlights of Manchester, the Chetham's library, are kept Robert Southey's ''Letters of Espriella'' in which says of Manchester that ‘a place more destitute of all interest it is impossible to conceive’. | ||
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| + | We visited it in [[April (2018)]] ([[Fabrice]] did pass by once in [[2017]] in a failed attempt to get a [[Chinese]] visa; on our second visit, which was with [[Camilo]], he also tried to get a Chinese visa, and also failed). | ||
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=== Chetham's Library, Manchester === | === Chetham's Library, Manchester === | ||
| − | Chetham's Library | + | Chetham's Library, founded [[1653]] in a [[1421]] building, is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. It holds over 120000 volumes of printed books an other documents. Unlike the time of Chetham, would instructed ‘to require nothing of any man that cometh into the library’, its visit is today strictly regulated. |
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| + | [[Marx]] and [[Engels]] used to meet there, in the window seat that you see in this picture above, where they developed the Communist Manifesto. | ||
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| + | :''During the last few days I have again spent a good deal of time sitting at the four-sided desk in the alcove where we sat together twenty-four years ago. I am very fond of the place. The stained glass window ensures that the weather is always fine there.'' The stained glass is gone but the rest stayed there. | ||
| + | The guide also mentioned a meeting of [[Cromwell]] on the roundtable, but I could find no other mention of that. | ||
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Manchester
Manchester is a city in the north of England, nearby Liverpool.
In one of the highlights of Manchester, the Chetham's library, are kept Robert Southey's Letters of Espriella in which says of Manchester that ‘a place more destitute of all interest it is impossible to conceive’.
We visited it in April (2018) (Fabrice did pass by once in 2017 in a failed attempt to get a Chinese visa; on our second visit, which was with Camilo, he also tried to get a Chinese visa, and also failed).
Things to do/see
- Chetham's Library (Mon).
- Castlefield park (canals and Roman amphitheatre)
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Manchester Cathedral
- The John Rylands Library (Sun).
- Town hall
- Victoria baths
- People's History Museum
- A beer at the Old Wellington
- St. Mary's Church
- Whitworth
- Heaton Park (far).
Chetham's Library, Manchester
Chetham's Library, founded 1653 in a 1421 building, is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. It holds over 120000 volumes of printed books an other documents. Unlike the time of Chetham, would instructed ‘to require nothing of any man that cometh into the library’, its visit is today strictly regulated.
Marx and Engels used to meet there, in the window seat that you see in this picture above, where they developed the Communist Manifesto.
- During the last few days I have again spent a good deal of time sitting at the four-sided desk in the alcove where we sat together twenty-four years ago. I am very fond of the place. The stained glass window ensures that the weather is always fine there. The stained glass is gone but the rest stayed there.
The guide also mentioned a meeting of Cromwell on the roundtable, but I could find no other mention of that.
